The hottest trends at this year's congress

MOD LIVE

Already revolutionising the snow sports world, Recon Instruments was demoing its Heads Up Display technology this week. The company’s MOD Live product is a micro-optic display for ski goggles that allow you to see useful stats like speed and temperature, but also connects to your smartphone so text messages will display on the small screen. The display is similar to a car dash, so it doesn’t obstruct your view.

And now third party apps are ready to come to the display, an it plans to branch out from snow sports in the future to other industries.

SAMSUNG BEAM

While Galaxy was going big on the advertising for its new Note 10.1, the Samsung Beam also deserved attention. Shown for the first time at this year’s Mobile World Congress, the Android-based phone incorporates a projector that will allow you to share media, such as videos and pictures, with a wider audience. All you need to do is find a flat surface to project onto – a wall or ceiling, for example.

The projector has a brightness of 15 lumens, and can project an image up to 50 inches wide. The

Gingerbread phone, which is powered by a 1 Ghz chip, comes with an application to activate the projector, and 8GB of internal memory to store your content.

HUAWEI MEDIAPAD FHD

Chinese firm Huawei is making a big push for the European market and, with its new tablet – the MediaPad FHD – it may cause a bit of disruption. The quad-core tablet was the talk of the congress this year, offering Android’s latest Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and a proprietary 1.5GHz processor.

This isn’t the first attempt at a tablet from Huawei. In fact, the MediaPad FHD is its fourth generation of tablets.

The screen is a 10-inch IPS high definition display, which supports multitouch, and Dolby surround sound technology. The rear facing camera has been bumped up to 8Megapixels, with the front camera at 1.3MP.

DRAGON TV

Imagine the arguments this one would create: Nuance has come up with a television that is controlled by voice. Voice control is something that was big news at the Consumer Electronics Show in January but, when it comes to voice recognition software, Nuance has a fair few years under its belt.

The maker of Dragon software is applying its expertise to home electronics. At Mobile World Congress, it showed off a Panasonic digital television that used the Dragon TV platform to allow users to get access to content more quickly than before, by speaking channel numbers, station names, show and movie names instead of using the remote.

Panasonic is bringing its voice-enabled VIERA digital TVs to Europe this year.

DORO EXPERIENCE

Doro Experience is not limited to one product, Rather, it’s a suite of software that is compatible with tablets, handsets and even laptops, making them more accessible for older users. The company has put the software on its new Android-based Doro PhoneEasy740, a touchscreen phone that can also be controlled with physical keys on a slide-out keypad. It can also be loaded onto a tablet, or used on a laptop to simplify emailing, browsing the internet, etc, for older users.

And it’s biggest selling point is that it can be remotely managed. So regardless of whether you want to add an app to a relative’s phone, or upload some family photos directly to a Doro Experience-enabled tablet, you can manage it all remotely through a web-based management portal.